Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:48:28 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Nicole <freelist@webweaver.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley Message-ID: <19980504004828.35746@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980503144012.freelist@webweaver.net>; from Nicole on Sun, May 03, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700 References: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> <XFMail.980503144012.freelist@webweaver.net>
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On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 02:40:12PM -0700, Nicole wrote: > > On 03-May-98 Brett Glass wisely wrote: > > I'm not mentioning FreeBSD explicitly in my messages, but I *am* advocating > > the Berkeley-style license. The angry zealots who respond to me, however, > > are trashing FreeBSD and the *BSDs in general. > > > > I agree that one can rarely "win" these arguments, but one can raise the > > awareness > > level of the lurkers (of which there are many) that there's an alternative > > point of view. That's where the benefit comes in. > > > > --Brett > > > I have heard one good argument against the FreeBSD liscense altho I > don't know how true it is.. > > Their agument was that the license would allow someone (like M$) to > take FreeBSD and add some propritary stuff to it (like Front page > extensions, active X etc) and sell it without having to give > anything back to the FreeBSD group or even state that it was > FreeBSD. They don't have to explictly state that it is FreeBSD, but there are a LOT of credits they _do_ have to state. Read through the source sometime. One example: They have to credit the University of California at Berkeley, even in their advertisements. This example is in /usr/src/COPYRIGHT. It is, however, correct that they wouldn't have to return the source. That's intended, and a lot of developers and contributors use it. I (for one) distribute FreeBSD-based products without providing source code, but I contribute back close to all generally usable to changes to the "official" FreeBSD. (I can't think of any examples of changes I haven't given back, but there might be some.) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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